Matt Falkenhagen
Software Engineer at Google
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMatt Falkenhagen is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years at Google in Tokyo and deep roots in web platform engineering, including prior research at Fujitsu and internships at Microsoft and Decru. He specializes in browser and standards work—contributing to Web Platform Tests, the W3C Service Worker spec, and the popular GoogleChrome dialog-polyfill—bringing practical expertise in service workers, client handling, and cross-browser UI behavior. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines rigorous specification-level fixes with hands-on test and polyfill development to reduce flakiness and improve interoperability. A Stanford BS/MS in Computer Science, he blends academic depth with long-term industry impact on core web technologies that millions rely on.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
service-worker10
javascript10
web-development10
dialogs10
polyfills10
dialog10
web-standards10
test-automation10
idl9
testing9
accessibility9
documentation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/ServiceWorker
Feb 2014 - Jun 2021
Service Workers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 34 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the W3C Service Worker specification by addressing missing attributes in IDL definitions and rebuilding the specification documentation. They also made improvements to the documentation and refactored code related to client handling, specifically introducing a discarded flag and new definitions. Furthermore, they refined importScripts functionality, corrected an early return value, and improved the algorithm for handling fetch requests.
serviceworkerclient-sideservice-workerworkersservice-workers
GoogleChrome/dialog-polyfill
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Polyfill for the HTML dialog element
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the `dialog-polyfill` library, aiming to provide HTML `<dialog>` element support in browsers that lack it natively. Their contributions involved implementing and refining the polyfill's behavior, including centering dialogs, managing the backdrop, and handling modal dialog interactions. They addressed various aspects of the component's functionality, fixing bugs related to native `<dialog>` detection, and incorporating improvements to CSS styling and positioning.
dialoga11ypolyfill
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